Mahfouz Khalaf

Mahfouz Khalaf (1976-2007) was a fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq.

Biography
Mahfouz Khalaf was born in 1976 in Karbala, Ba'athist Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs. He served in Saddam Hussein's army until 2003, when the United States ousted Saddam in an invasion. Khalaf used his experience to take command of Iraqi insurgents fighting the US occupation, and in 2007 he was killed in the fierce fighting for Karbala.